Two Question For Which One Answer Will Suffice

Question One.... What happened to the committee appointed to develop rules for the creation of subdivisions so that the county doesn't get stuck paving roads for private individual benefit and profit?

Question Two.... What happened to the committee appointed to explore and develop rules and enforcement of those rules dealing with the nuisance, unhealthy, unsightly, unacceptable and dangerous situations on private property affecting those who live in that area, laws?

Answer.... NOTHING.

After much outrage over the county highway department, not by their choosing but by existing rules, being manipulated into paving, at county expense, the roads in a housing development under construction all sorts of talk was made to correct and prevent such an abuse from ever taking place again. What happened that nothing was done? Why does the county still sit exposed to the possibility of this same experience being repeated?

Why when the Tennessee Code Annotated makes it perfectly clear that counties can establish and enforce nuisance laws, that prevent such things as the huge accumulation of garbage, junked vehicles etc on private property, animals from running loose in communities, etc, we can't even get an appointed committee of commissioners to meet and discuss the matter?

It seems we have a problem with hands out for gimme, mouths full of smiles but no backbone for doing things necessary for a better county.

Planning Committee or Plan Committed?

It seems that the County Executive has joined the ranks of those who recycle. Now before you get excited about adding another recruit to saving the environment the recycling she plans is not what you normally would expect from one who recycles.
As politicians are inclined to do, our County Executive seems determined to recycle some old politicians she is indebted to. Her plan seems to be appointing former Commissioners Chan Harris and Edwin Lovell to the Panning Commission Chaired by Ms Shari Flacy.
While I congratulate the County Executive on choosing private citizens to fill positions on some committees, if she would only do that with the Financial Management Committee and Budget Committee imagine the money that might be saved, I must admit to a great disappointment in her choices of Mr. Lovell and Mr. Harris.
In my opinion their appointment is nothing less than payback for their support in the beer sales fiasco that took place last year and led to their defeat in the August elections. If you remember they led the way into a morass of convoluted maneuvers that cost the county a considerable amount in legal fees and resulted in the State Attorney General ruling that we not only didn't have a distance established for the sell of beer the situation had to be reversed or even greater legal fees and penalties would be incurred by the county.
Doing special favors for friends and political allies not only has proven to be illegal and costly it reveals the unethical levels to which some will stoop.